Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/02/2010 00:11, mailinglist wrote: I've got an old P4 desktop computer running in the basement with a 1 TB external USB drive connected to that I use as a file server. That PC is running XP. It has recently become infected with some sort of

NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Masoom Shaikh
here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html certain statements are very impressive in those slides like Build any NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment $ uname -s -m Linux i686 $ cd netbsd-src $ ./build.sh -m sparc64 release develop and test 32 bits

FreeBSD8.0 with AHCI

2010-02-18 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello community, I have an Intel server and I must activate AHCI from BIOS so I can use all the 6 HDDs. Can anybody tell me if FBSD8.0 is stable using AHCI. This is the first I have to use so I thought I'd ask the community opinion first. Thank you, v -- network warrior since 2005

Re: FreeBSD8.0 with AHCI

2010-02-18 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 18/02/2010 08:54, Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have an Intel server and I must activate AHCI from BIOS so I can use all the 6 HDDs. Can anybody tell me if FBSD8.0 is stable using AHCI. This is the first I have to use so I thought I'd ask the community opinion first. AHCI

Re: Console problem

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/02/2010 07:56, Jurif wrote: I have some problems with console (freebsd 7.2). When i press up arrow keyboard button to repeat previous command (history) and try to edit this line can't because overwrite text... Also have issue with text

Mount a Microsoft .vhd file

2010-02-18 Thread Patrick Collins
Hello, Is there a utility which would allow me to mount a Microsoft .vhd disk image file with FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. I want to mount and read a Windows 7 image backup. Thanks. Patrick Collins +61 419 712 581 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:09:54 +0530, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html certain statements are very impressive in those slides like Build any NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment $ uname -s -m

Re: Unable to build kdelibs3

2010-02-18 Thread Carmel
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:51:12 -0600 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com articulated: I hope you find a better solution, but mine was to pkg_delete * and rebuild. That is the same advice I have been given on other forums also. I will probably follow the same avenue that a colleague of mine

FreeBSD8.0 on IBM BladeCenter S 8886

2010-02-18 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello community, Does anyone have a working setup of FBSD (preferably 8.0) on an IBM BladeCenter S 8886? Do you think it would work? Google is short on answers on this matter. Thank you, v -- network warrior since 2005 ___

Re: Unable to build kdelibs3

2010-02-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: That is the same advice I have been given on other forums also. I will probably follow the same avenue that a colleague of mine did and abandon FBSD until version 8.1 is released and then simply dump the entire system and

RE: Can't boot off the USB image

2010-02-18 Thread Peter Steele
We boot off USB disks all the time without issues. As long as the disk is listed first in the BIOS and it's a proper FBSD image, it works fine... -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Fbsd1 Sent: Wednesday,

8.0 and freebsd-doc native languages

2010-02-18 Thread n dhert
I installed a new 8.0 from the DVD and the ports collection. Did a portsnap update, pkg_version -vIL reported 21 ports to upgrade of which 19 XX-freebsd-doc-20100213 (XX = two letters identifying a native language) I throught this would just install preformatted files, so started the 21 ports

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Hi, - Original Message From: Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr To: Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 1:36:30 PM Subject: Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:09:54 +0530,

Mouse not working on virtual box VM

2010-02-18 Thread mailinglist
I've successfully got X Windows up and running on a Virtual Box VM on FreeBSD 8, however it isn't detecting my mouse. Any idea on how I can make that happen? As far as I know, there are no guest addition for virtual box for FreeBSD..of course that's assuming that would even help. It

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-18 Thread mailinglist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does your old P4 support 64-bit operation? Does it have 2GB RAM or more? If not, then you might want to reconsider using ZFS. It's not that it won't or can't be made to work given those limitations, but you'll find it hard work to get it

Re: Mouse not working on virtual box VM

2010-02-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu wrote: I've successfully got X Windows up and running on a Virtual Box VM on FreeBSD 8, however it isn't detecting my mouse. Any idea on how I can make that happen? As far as I know, there are no guest addition for virtual

to KASSERT || !KASSERT

2010-02-18 Thread Ben Widawsky
I'm trying to decide whether or not to leave invariants turned on for a production system. The target system will be an embedded device where performance is already at a premium. I would have a mechanism to remotely obtain panic information after an assertion failed. I'm primarily interested in

panic: No BIOS smap info from loader:

2010-02-18 Thread Michael T Ehlert
I get the message: panic: No BIOS smap info from loader: When trying to boot amd64 on my server. It has an Intel s5000vcl board w/ a 5000v mem controller and 6321esb i/o controller. I'd really like to move from Debian to FreeBSD on this box, but have not been able to find a workaround.

User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-18 Thread Programmer In Training
I am using the non-ports version of Apache. I downloaded 2.2.14 from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache22 just a little while ago. I compiled, installed, got it running with minimal fuss. The issue is with my user directories (e.g. $HOME/public_html ). I uncommented the line to include

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Programmer In Training wrote: Am I just having a case of the stupids here? It has been a few years since I've managed Apache even for local testing. I've also adjusted the permissions for that directory with no change. Also, the log files show Apache going

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-18 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/18/10 13:21, Chuck Swiger wrote: snip Apache is going to look up the home directories specified in /etc/passwd via getpwent() or similar. If allowed, it would chase a Then it shouldn't even bother with having a setting for specifying the path to user directories (or at least that

Re: Can't boot off the USB image

2010-02-18 Thread rocwhite168
Sorry for the ambiguity, but I meant the flash drive... While I waited for responses from the mailing list last night, I kept on searching the Internet for possible solutions, and finally solved the problem by first cleaning the the flash drive: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1k count=1, then

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Programmer In Training wrote: On 02/18/10 13:21, Chuck Swiger wrote: snip Apache is going to look up the home directories specified in /etc/passwd via getpwent() or similar. If allowed, it would chase a Then it shouldn't even bother with having a setting

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-18 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/18/10 13:46, Chuck Swiger wrote: snip Whether the path to user home directories is honored or whether Apache goes somewhere else for HTTP requests for /~user/foo.html depends on what you set UserDir to: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_userdir.html It's possible that using:

HP DV4-2153 laptop

2010-02-18 Thread Neil Short
problem: 7.2-Release doesn't detect either network device. Just picked up a HP DV4-2153 laptop from Costco. I don't know how new it is; but it may be fairly new. In the store I was able to determine the wireless device to be Atheros. I don't know what the wired device is. I never booted

Re: HP DV4-2153 laptop

2010-02-18 Thread Outback Dingo
Possible being an N chip its the newer ath9k which i had a similiar problem under linux, but finally after getting the ath9k module loaded i could see a card was there, then a simple ifconfig wlan0 up and iwconfig wlan0 power auto under linux got it live. so id suspect something comparable to

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-18 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/18/10 14:54, Craig Whipp wrote: snip What are the permissions for your $HOME and $HOME/public_html? The user that apache is running as must be able read from these directories. - Craig drwxr-xr-x 49 user1 user1 1536 Feb 18 14:31 user1/ drwxr-xr-x 18 user1 user1 2560 Feb 14

is there a tool for estimating loss rates

2010-02-18 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
I have 2 leasedlines for internet. the one is in a country. other one is in a another country. I am looking for a tool for estimating loss packets between 2 lines. is there a tool for it? for instance , while searching, I found badabing tool for that. But I couldn't understand how it estimates

Re: RTL8192SE WLAN

2010-02-18 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Feb 17, 2010, at 23:36 , Paul B Mahol wrote: On 2/17/10, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 13:54 , Paul B Mahol wrote: I use 8.0. Here is the script of what I did to manually setup the card: Script started on Wed Feb 17 21:33:08 2010 [r...@thor ~]# kldload

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:09:20PM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: On 02/18/10 13:46, Chuck Swiger wrote: snip Whether the path to user home directories is honored or whether Apache goes somewhere else for HTTP requests for /~user/foo.html depends on what you set UserDir to:

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Shroyer
On 2/18/2010 10:32 AM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: How about these bench vs FreeBSD?! http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img11.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img15.html If those numbers are characteristic of the operating system's overall

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-18 Thread Ghirai
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500 mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu wrote: UFS on the other hand will work just fine on 32bit systems and smaller and older machines. (The limitation with UFS is a maximum 2TB filesystem size, but I suspect this will not cause you any practical

Options for redundant storage cluster?

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Law
Hi, hopefully I'm not too far out posting this question here. It takes in a lot of areas so I was unsure where to post it. If it belongs on another ML please advise and I will re-post it there. I am researching options for a two node failover storage cluster. This is primarily to provide

Re: is there a tool for estimating loss rates

2010-02-18 Thread APseudoUtopia
2010/2/18 Yavuz Maşlak yavuz.mas...@netiletisim.net: I have 2 leasedlines for internet. the one is in a country. other one is in a another country. I am looking for a tool for estimating loss packets between 2 lines. is there a tool for it? for instance , while searching, I found badabing

Re: Options for redundant storage cluster?

2010-02-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote: Hi, hopefully I'm not too far out posting this question here. It takes in a lot of areas so I was unsure where to post it. If it belongs on another ML please advise and I will re-post it there. I am researching

Re: Options for redundant storage cluster?

2010-02-18 Thread Daniel Gerzo
On 19.2.2010 2:30, Adam Vande More wrote: I'd say right now ggated/ggatec + heartbeat is sort of roughly equivalent of DRBD and heartbeat. I think many of us are waiting for HAST though. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2009-October/001279.html FYI, HAST was committed

Re: is there a tool for estimating loss rates

2010-02-18 Thread Kurt Buff
2010/2/18 Yavuz Maşlak yavuz.mas...@netiletisim.net: I have 2 leasedlines for internet. the one is in a country. other one is in a another country. I am looking for a tool for estimating loss packets between 2 lines. is there a tool for it? for instance , while searching, I found badabing

Re: is there a tool for estimating loss rates

2010-02-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have 2 leasedlines for internet. the one is in a country. other one is in a another country. I am looking for a tool for estimating loss packets between 2 lines. is there a tool for it? for instance , while searching, I found badabing tool for that. But I couldn't understand how it

Re: Maximum Number of USB Mass Storage Devices

2010-02-18 Thread Patrick Collins
Thanks David. My question was specific to FreeBSD's limitations rather than USB limitiations. On 19/02/2010, David King dk...@ketralnis.com wrote: I have a requirement to connect a large number of USB bus powered external hard disks to a FreeBSD 8.0 system. I am talking about hundreds of

Re: Maximum Number of USB Mass Storage Devices

2010-02-18 Thread David King
I have a requirement to connect a large number of USB bus powered external hard disks to a FreeBSD 8.0 system. I am talking about hundreds of them. The USB spec itself limits to 127 devices per bus, including hubs (and including the internal hub-like device on many busses).

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Mark Shroyer subscriber+free...@markshroyer.com wrote: On 2/18/2010 10:32 AM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: How about these bench vs FreeBSD?! http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img11.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html

Making installworld got stuck on SunFire v20z (Freebsd 8.0)

2010-02-18 Thread Lucas Wang
I tried to install Freebsd 8.0 on one of our lab machines, which is SunFire v20z. After successfully installing it from CD, I followed the following steps trying to update the kernel and world: cvsup make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot mergemaster -p make installworld